What is the greatest leap of faith you’ve ever made and how did it turn out?

Question

I recently directed a film called Jumper, which follows the adventures of David Rice, a young man who discovers he has the ability to 'jump' or teleport anywhere in the world with merely a thought. It wasn't easy for him the first time and required a leap of faith, so I would like to hear about your greatest leap of faith...

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Answer 1

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Slamming the door and walking out on a cruel & violent relationship with a 1 yr old baby with just the clothes we wore and £5 - Scared that he would come looking, chasing us, hunting us down, scared even to let family know. Scared that I was capable of surviving the next day, let alone feed, shelter and care for my child when we had nothing.

It was my greatest leap of faith in myself and hearing that door slam, reverberating in my mind, kept me strong, and making me determined to make our life better alone.

25 years on -- It was tough -- but we survived & live to tell the tale.

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Many thanks for sharing this - that's an amazing answer!

Answer 2

Great question! I was in my final year of a Metallurgy degree and decided to take a leap of faith and I transferred to Primary Education.

I have almost finished now and I am so glad that I took the risk as I really enjoy teaching kids.

Answer 3

I decided one night to take the little money I had saved up (like $100) and head up to the casino. I lost it all.

Answer 4

One evening, I got a terrible feeling that I absolutely, 100% needed to break up with my boyfriend of two years. This came out of NOWHERE - and it was the night before our 2 year anniversary. The thought of breaking up with him made me sick, because I loved him so much and of course I didn't want to end what I considered to be the best thing in my life. I had no idea why I had to do it, but I felt as if it was something God was asking me to do, so I did it. I broke up with him that night.

Exactly a month later, I found out he had been cheating on me for seven months. So..it worked out.

Answer 5

I quit law school and moved to Cozumel, Mexico to SCUBA dive and learn Spanish before my life became monotonous. I did so with only $600 in my pocket, and got a job. I met the love of my life, we married 1.5 yrs later, and now we have 2 beautiful children. We lived there for 3 years, then moved to Cabo San Lucas for 2 more. Now we're in Orange County, CA where I'm from...
NO REGRETS!!!

Answer 6

I started a new job at a restaurant and I met this guy who worked there also. And he was getting kicked out of the dorms and had no money and no place to stay. We didn't know each other very well and we didn't get along very well but I knew he needed a place to stay so I let him live with me for free till he found a place. It was awkward at first but over time we fell in love and now we have 3 kids and couldn't be happier. I took a leap of faith and it worked out great.

Answer 7

ok... i'm not trying to be rude, but for me, it happened at the age of 5. I came back from school and noone was home and the doors were locked. I was in need of a poopoo, so I took that 'leap of fate' right on the street!!

HehHeh, what a kid moment!

Answer 8

well my aunt died in a car crash last year about an hour after everyone had left our family reunion so we all drove back and stayed for weeks at my uncles house and it was very emotional. about four months later i got together pictures of her and made a scrapbook that i wanted to send to all my relatives but i was really scared that it would just bring up bad memories and feelings and it took alot of encouragement to realize that the book was to remember her memory not to make people sad! so i ended up sending it to my relatives and they all loved it.

Answer 9

My greatest leap of faith was when I switched to foreign films it made me realise how poor Hollywood really is in comparison.

Answer 10

well there are these foreign women who work at a local chinese retsraunt and i happen to b attracted to them,but i strongly belived hey were racist.When they delivered food to my sister they had bad attitudes.So 1 day i saw one of then(they have no idea who i am by the way) and decided to try and speak to her and she took 1 look at me and kept on walking

Answer 11

I don't think I've done it yet. But im young, I've got time. I have a plan for my first great leap of faith though: I have always been a very homey person, I get home sick when I go away, and last year when I planned to live in Spain for 4 months I only managed 5 weeks. I plan to live abroad for a substantial amount of time and learn that I love it!

Answer 12

When my husband signed my son up for karate lessons, I had been on the look-out for tai chi lessons (for myself).
When I found out that they (tai chi lessons) were too expensive, I decided 'what the hell, if the other adults and teenagers can start, then so can I!'
I did, at the ripe old age of 33 years old and I haven't looked back!

It is now 4 years later and I am in training for 1st Dan (despite fracturing my shoulder joint in 4 places recently, pins, plate and all LOL!!

Source(s):

Personal experience.

Answer 13

earlier this year i withdrew my university application at the last minute (got into all the unis i applied for!) and decided to sign up for a gap year in australia
just payed for my flights i leave sept 17th! hope it goes well!
gonna apply for uni again for next year tho... couldnt stand the thought of carryin on education with no break

Answer 14

I sold everything I owned and moved to another country for 6 months.

came back pregnant with the love of my life.. my beautiful baby girl!

Answer 15

at 23 i moved from uk to oz... for a fella, stayed for 9 years..... loved the place but it is one of the biggest mistakes i've ever made... thank god my family looked after me when I arrived home and broken 4 years ago!

Answer 16

I was in an extremely violent relationship.
My greatest leap of faith was realising that he had hit me, marked me for the last time.
I had been told for 10 years that I was useless.
With the help of family and friends I found myself. I was a single mum for 11 years.
I was amazed at how much I could do and how well I could cope.
Maybe a small leap for some but I great leap for me.
I had to find faith in myself.

Answer 17

In my mid twenties I suffered severe post-partum depression and cried out to God to help me. He answered that prayer, not by removing the depression, but by causing me to meet two Christian people who gently influenced me to check out what I'd been brought up to believe. After two years deep investigation, I realized I had to make a complete break from the religion of my family - even though most of them shunned me as a result. The leap of faith was believing God when he promised in His word, 'Even though [your] mother and your father forsake you, [I] will take you in' (Psalm 27:10). He did! It worked out way beyond my wildest hopes and it was the best thing I ever did. Now some of my family who once shunned me have left that religion themselves and are free from its bondage.

Answer 18

Good question. But you'll be getting a lot of stars for this, so have a little faith - you won't need mine. Anyway, I've had a lot of little leaps, but the one that stood out from all the rest was the time I got on stage on front of a groups of seasoned old guitarists at a convention held at the bar I was working in. It was an open-mic challenge, and my boss asked me to get on to this big stage with a mic and plugged acoustic guitar and do a number. I was 19 and the only guy in the bar that wasn't allowed to be under the influence of alcohol, but something told me "this is my five minutes" so I did. I got a round of applause and beer bought for me the next day all day by the guys. I performed "Under the Bridge" from beginning to end. After my celebrations of free beer the next day, I fell over my ankle and couldnt walk for three days, and had to take a day off from working in the bar. It was a win-win scenario, including a short reminder from Karma not to masturbate my ego.

Answer 19

I don't think i ever have other than moving to the other side of the world, but i don't think i had a choice in that lol.
Turned out well but i am planning to go back.

Answer 20

When I was starting college I missed out on my course by a couple of points in my exams. It was so harsh. I had the option of repeating the year but instead I decided to start a journalism course.

I had wanted to study it for years but everyone told me I wouldn't be able to do it, that I didn't have the right character. I'm graduating this summer top of my class.

Answer 21

It was to marry a man that I didn't really love. So that I could stop crying about somebody that I did love.

I knew I was likely to get very ill if I didn't do something drastic. My friend asked me to marry him and eventually I agreed.

We divorced & I have been alone for about 7 years now.

I am glad I took that leap of faith even though it didn't completely work. It did help me stop 'passionately' loving. Now I just don't risk my heart so much.
I would like to be in love, but I don't ever want to hurt like that anymore.

The other thing was - I decided to give religion a try- and that's been great.

Still not completely fulfilled yet though

Answer 22

My great leap of faith was to train as a school maths teacher in 2005, at the age of 45 years. However, the training proved intensive, and the course generally had a high drop out rate (around 25%). I dropped out half way through, and thought I had made a huge mistake not just in dropping out but entering the training in the first place. I had worked in the National Health Service for many years, and before that in the housing sector.

Anyway, I now work in a young person's hostel on the night staff. It has its moments, but at least I feel I am doing my bit to help other young people with their lives. So in a way, things have worked out in an unexpected way.

Answer 23

My leap of faith was to start smoking, I thought "you know what **** it" and sparked up. Now I have 5 months to live.

Answer 24

At the end of school when everyone is deciding what to do, I applied to university like my friends. I was rejected. This was not due to the fact that I was not hardworking ( but I could have tried harder like anyone else)...my friends were all the high achieving students of the school but never achived their success.

On the offchance I applied to the Universities Board to over-rule the decision and to my utter surprise 2 weeks before classes began I was given admission. Now I began to query my ability to cope with university as my teacher's had said it was not for me or I would struggle, I had not been admitted to university in the first place and my grades were not great. A friend asked me if I ever thought I would regret my decision in the future without even trying. I decided to go, having been told not to go by teachers, without having a place to stay ( I had been rejected from the Halls of residence too!) no support from my father ( who was against me going) and no idea of what I would even study! I went.
I completed my Bachelor of Science and then went onto complete a Master of Science ( hons)......Not bad really.

Answer 25

I had just fallen out with my best friend after something that happened on a night out. In short, I knew deep down I loved them and they didn't know and by the end of the night they were kissing another guy while sitting next to me.

It all came out and we didn't speak for a week after that night, and during that time I had been telling an internet friend about everything that had been going on. I even told them that rather than carry on like this, I wanted to go on holiday to make sure my mind was set and focused about where my life was heading. Initially I was talking about a break to Stockholm, but they suggested to go and see them... on the other side of the world! I had only been speaking with them through the internet and it was a risk. I decided, with the support of friends here, that I should just go.

I did, and don't regret any of it. Now my "internet" friend is one of my best mates, even though we are 15000 miles apart.

Answer 26

My greatest leap of faith was when I decided to move to Spain. I was divorced (violent marriage, no loss). Had a 21 year old daughter at the time of the decision to move, came home from work after sitting in a traffic jam for an hour, and said to my daughter "that's it I've had enough, let's move to Spain" she agreed and so within months we sold the house, packed everything we could into my car and drove to Southern Spain with 2000 pounds in my pocket (after paying the mortgage and debts off)
that was 1991 and we are still here.........life has been good
(it's not been easy but it has been better than living in the UK)
My daughter is now married to a Spaniard (fantastic guy) has a 6 year old bilingual daughter, whom I adore and I am happy being single. The sun shines every day for us, and we are happy we made that decision to move. At the time the only thing I said was "the worst thing that can happen is that if it fails we will go back".........we never did. So I'm glad I made my leap of faith otherwise I might still be in the traffic jam!!!

After reading alot of these answers it seems to me that more people should takes a leap of faith or a risk like us, but few do. They all moan about how their life sucks, but few do anything about it. My advice to all out there is simply this:
YOU are in control of what happens to you, no one else, so don't waste your life, get up and do something!!

Answer 27

i had a friend 2 years ago and there were lots of problems between us... not that we created then but they were created by others. and that kind of ruined our friendship, but i disn't lose trust.. things got so bad that my friend lost trust in me and we juct cut off our friendship like that. not a word, no discussion, no fights, nothing. so it was painful, but i was grateful that things didn't turn out to get worse.. having lost my good friend, i gave up on everything.. i thought i could never trust anyone. i hated the world and i would always try to find faults in others. i was making my life miserable as well as others.

then, a couple of months ago, i got to know a friend who has always been there for me till now. we relate to each other very well.. now i feel that i can trust someone again.. i've slowly overcomed the fear of being cheated and basically, i think i am leading a new life. i found the old me and i am happy i did. :)

Answer 28

i gave some one my all

Source(s):

depends how it finishes,
-ive learnt so much though

Answer 29

my greatest leap of faith, was when I made the choice to be a host surrogate mother. I believed I could do this, so did it, and yes it ended really well, twins for a family, with no lasting issue's for my self or my family. I had faith and took it.

Answer 30

I watched the first half hour of your film but it seemed a boring low qualityrepeat of Quantum leap so binned it. Maybe it improved later. My greatest leap of faith is getting up every day.

Answer 31

in 1992 I jumped out of a plane without any parachute training whatsoever.
I was captured by the Iraqi army tortured a bit and released 18 days later.